that's pretty much the story I think the end result was he had it lined up right, but just the wet paws made for a slippery surface and his feet came out from under him. if you see some shots of him jumping at other times, he had a plan.

I'll be home shortly, so hopefully i cam make an interesting series of pictures out of this.

the first picture i was debating if i wanted to add it or not, but i think it paints the picture as you can see the "Dexter" starting to enter the frame.

I believe his plan was to land a little higher up, then launch himself over the log. I a series of images of him making that work, so i've assumed that's what he was going for again.... But the wet paws and the early jump made for this image and 5-7 minutes of laughter.... And maybe some crying from laughing so had.

the last image is the last one i took because i saw what was happening and stopped shooting and chased after the dog to make sure he was ok.... And yes.... He was perfectly happy and kept going. He's built to take impacts.

sorry, i killed some of the quality because i made it too small, then stretched the small image about 200pixels more, so it's not as crisp and clear anymore, but you still get the point

the reason i left that one in is because i really wanted to demonstrate how far this little dog attempted to jump from. We were thinking he was a good 3 feet in the air, but started about 9-10 feet back... it was pretty phenomenal to watch.

I'm put together his proper jump so people can see a properly executed version of this.

Found this bumble bee on the sponge in my car-washing bucket a couple days ago. I helped him out and snapped some pics. Macro is a completely different world than I'm used to. Such a narrow DOF. This shot was at F/11, I believe. Probably should have tried to stop down further using flash, or attempted to focus-stack: